2 Kings 18:4

New American Bible - revised edition

It was he who removed the high places, shattered the pillars, cut down the asherah, and smashed the bronze serpent Moses had made, because up to that time the Israelites were burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)

Cross References

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in the way of Asa his father unceasingly, doing what was right in the Lord’s sight.

2 Kings 10:26

and took out the pillars of the temple of Baal. They burned the shrine,

2 Kings 11:18

Thereupon all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and demolished it. They shattered its altars and images completely, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. Jehoiada the priest appointed a detachment for the house of the Lord,

2 Kings 12:3

Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight as long as he lived, because Jehoiada the priest guided him,

2 Kings 14:4

though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places. It was he who built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s house.

2 Kings 15:4

though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.

2 Kings 16:15

King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Upon the large altar sacrifice the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt offering and grain offering of the people of the land. Their libations you must sprinkle on it along with all the blood of burnt offerings and sacrifices. But the old bronze altar shall be mine for consultation.”

2 Kings 18:22

Or do you people say to me, “It is in the Lord our God we trust!”? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, “Worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?’

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He set up altars to Baal and also made an asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke to pieces the pillars, cut down the asherahs, and filled the places where they had been with human bones.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, his assistant priests, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the objects that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole host of heaven. These he burned outside Jerusalem on the slopes of the Kidron; their ashes were carried to Bethel.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Yet some good has been found in you, since you have removed the asherahs from the land and have set your heart to seek God.” Judges Appointed.

2 Chronicles 31:1

After all this was over, those Israelites who had been present went forth to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the asherahs, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they were all destroyed. Then the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had torn down. He set up altars to the Baals, and also made asherahs. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Exodus 23:24

Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

Exodus 34:13

Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.

Isaiah 36:7

Or do you say to me: It is in the Lord, our God, we trust? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Worship before this altar’?

Leviticus 26:30

I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses upon the corpses of your idols. In my loathing of you,

Deuteronomy 5:5

while I was standing between the Lord and you at that time, to announce to you these words of the Lord, since you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain: The Decalogue.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you must deal with them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their asherahs, and destroy their idols by fire.

Judges 6:25

That same night the Lord said to him: Take your father’s bull, the bull fattened for seven years, and pull down your father’s altar to Baal. As for the asherah beside it, cut it down

Judges 6:28

Early the next morning the townspeople found that the altar of Baal had been dismantled, the asherah beside it cut down, and the fattened bull offered on the altar that was built.